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Re: Which Linux Distributions Are Dying?

Rami Taibah — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:12:32 -0000

I blogged about something similar a couple of month ago, I noticed Ubuntu is almost becoming synonymous with Linux! Here are some different details:

http://hehe2.net/linux-general/linux-a-search-e...

Re: MikeonTV

Rami Taibah — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 19:53:07 -0000

I don't wanna be in his place!

Re: Ping.fm / Blog / We're Nominated, Now Go Vote!

Rami Taibah — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 03:20:07 -0000

Voted! W000t

Re: The Greatest Minds of the 20th Century

Rami Taibah — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 21:44:18 -0000

Definitely not about where to get the best pedicure, or who got a hotter stethoscope Dr. House or Dr. Cox ;)

Re: 21st Century Caveman?

Rami Taibah — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 08:18:50 -0000

Google it. Both of you :P

Re: OpenHulu…Not!

Rami Taibah — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 08:24:30 -0000

Wish you all the luck Matt, as I said I love what you are doing, it's not your fault...Power to the people :D

Re: Asus eee pc 8G Available At Newegg!

Rami Taibah — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 02:04:11 -0000

You most certainly will my friend, you want an unboxing segment to go with that :P:P

Oh dear, I have become one of them haven't I? :(

Re: It’s A Wonderful Internet…But Not On Every Pasture

Rami Taibah — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 17:02:06 -0000

Jansie: Thank you. Yes FF is great, I for one can't remember when IE was my browser, even before FF I used Netscape for a while, when FF 1.0 came out I embraced it and never looked back. I feel nauseous whenever I have to use IE.

And yes I agree with you that the cellphone situation is very much worse, but I still have hope that the two upcoming open platforms will make a difference.

33T: Thank you ver much...and keep on reading :)

Re: Digg: Too Much Info = Garbage!!

Rami Taibah — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 17:26:22 -0000

Indeed guys, I really hate it. Its more like spam. Or like someone commented on this on Digg, that doing something similar to facebook's feed would be pretty cool.

And I tend to agree :)

Re: Digg: Too Much Info = Garbage!!

Rami Taibah — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 21:31:19 -0000

You are already one DiDi ;)

Re: Hiding Dirty Stuff: Windows vs. Linux

Rami Taibah — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 00:06:18 -0000

Regardless, the point is that a Linux user would never think of securing his/her files that way. How many Windows users know how to secure their files using ACL? Not many if you look at percentages. The same cannot be said about Linux users.

Re: I Just Installed Fedora 8!

Rami Taibah — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 02:58:16 -0000

Gentoo is the best...Just trying out different flavors ;)

Re: HOWTO: Linksys WMP54G PCI Wireless Adapter on Ubuntu (Gutsy)

Rami Taibah — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 08:43:31 -0000

@gluonman: Apparently Linksys just changed the location of the file. Here is the card's page.

Use the menu on the left :)

Re: I Just Installed Fedora 8!

Rami Taibah — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 01:40:04 -0000

Well honest_ape, you probably gonna expect an Ubuntu answer right :)?? Well ya you could try that, but I would also recommend Mint Linux, it is based on Ubuntu, but has lots of Ubuntu's kinks sorted out...

Of course I am more than happy to assist you in the installation process or anything else...you are a big boy you know how to contact me;)

Re: Thinnest Laptop in the World?….Pffft!!

Rami Taibah — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:56:37 -0000

Actually a minion of the penguin mind you...but ya you are right :)

Re: Hiding Dirty Stuff: Windows vs. Linux

Rami Taibah — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 07:06:21 -0000

@Leona: Of course this isn't the most secure method. With this method the names of the files will appear anyway, which is enough to incriminate any pimple-faced teenager or aspiring corporate employee...All I am saying is comparing between two security lax users from both "ideologies"...The first method that comes up to mind for a Windows user is "hiding" the folder, either from the properties menu or in some obscure file, or a combo of both...while the first thing that comes to mind for a Linux user is change permissions...which is more secure? You tell me :)

@Magnus: Ya thats very secure :P:P

Re: A Disturbingly New Breed of Fanbois

Rami Taibah — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:21:46 -0000

Well Ape, all I am saying that the guy has an Apple logo and Vista on the laptop. Maybe it's not that interesting, it's just I know the guy, and he knows nothing about Mac's except that they are "in" these days....

Re: Digg: The Lulled Revolution

Rami Taibah — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:20:12 -0000

@babblin5: yup buying time it is, just enough to spin the whole site off...I think all is not well in diggland...

@robojiannis: The users of course, it's just that they (admins) don't seem to realize it!

Re: HOWTO: Linksys WMP54G PCI Wireless Adapter on Ubuntu (Gutsy)

Rami Taibah — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:50:31 -0000

hmm, you will have to try it out, but I believe so. Try it out and if you have any troubles let me know.

PS: anime?

Re: StumbleUpon Whooping Digg’s Ass!

Rami Taibah — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 11:09:32 -0000

hmmm Ape, I think you are onto something here. I don't know how Digg or Mixx could do such a thing, without changing the core of their process, but I believe something could be managed.

Perhaps on a Digg bar, one would choose the category, and whether popular or upcoming, and then just "stumble"...Digg or Bury...that would kick ass i guess.

Oh and thanks for reminding me to follow up on this entry ;)

Re: Asus eee pc 4G With Desktop Effects

Rami Taibah — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 15:32:19 -0000

Thanks Aaron, despite that your URL raises suspicions of spam, I am gonna give you the benefit of a doubt;) Keep on reading, I would really value your input

Re: An Interview with an Extremadura Developer: Bringing Linux to the Masses

Rami Taibah — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 06:13:05 -0000

@honestape: Thanks mate :)

@Tsiolkovsky: I honestly don't know, I will forward this question to him, thanks for dropping by :)

Re: An Interview with an Extremadura Developer: Bringing Linux to the Masses

Rami Taibah — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 10:41:45 -0000

@honestape, actually it has more Linux into it. I used to go by the handle "apropos" Which is a command and an english word. But a typo made it "atropos", found out the meaning, liked it...adopted it :)

Re: Toshiba Qosmio vs. Sony Vaio TZ vs. eee PC

Rami Taibah — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 16:27:35 -0000

Yup you totally don't get that feeling, it just feels like carrying around a notepad but on steroids :D

Re: Howto: Your Perfect Ubuntu on Your Perfect Eee PC

Rami Taibah — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 05:28:47 -0000

Thanks Andrey, try it out and tell me how it works out with you. If you have any problems don't hesitate to ask :)

Re: 10 Slick Linux Desktops, and How To Make Them

Rami Taibah — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:42:27 -0000

@ Bes: huh? What do you mean??

@Then Again Dude:Since when Linux is only good at looking good? Trust me mate, these desktops are as productive as they come...

@Jack: Too much what? Elements?

Re: After the Pakistan/Youtube Debacle…Saudi Arabia Decides to Block Photobucket!

Rami Taibah — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 02:00:33 -0000

@mvk25: well ya probably if your audience is in Saudi Arabia. But if they weren't then your OK....but ya you got the a-hole part correct alright!

Anyways I hope you got a backup and just upload them to flickr or imageshack or something, and update the links. I know it's a pain in the neck but hey welcome to ksa ;)

Re: 10 Slick Linux Desktops, and How To Make Them

Rami Taibah — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 08:21:50 -0000

@JJMacey: Ya I will probably do that in a seperate post.

@ Rich: Sorry you didn't find these desktops, sexy. Whats your idea of sexy? Maybe I could whip up something for you ;)

Re: 10 Slick Linux Desktops, and How To Make Them

Rami Taibah — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 08:47:10 -0000

@Spanky: I appreciate your honesty. But this just reflects my personal taste in desktops. I scoured the net looking for screenshots and chose the top 10 appealing to me ( I really didn't want to put my desktops as I didn't want to this to be construed as promoting my stuff).

I also initially wanted to put OSX and Vista styles, but then voted against that solely for the reason that I believe that Linux has a soul of it's own, but I already hinted to that possibility in my intro. Also I really don't find Vista or Mac OSX appealing in the first place.

Anyways thanks for your input, I will definitely keep it in mind in my upcoming Desktop and/or Compiz posts :)

Re: 10 Slick Linux Desktops, and How To Make Them

Rami Taibah — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 19:39:45 -0000

@ Paulo Cesar: Well it's F'ing cool man! I have a question though what are those tabs on the bottom left?

Re: HOWTO: Install Ubuntu on Your Eee PC

Rami Taibah — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 09:24:56 -0000

Well I believe you can, I can't see why not. If you know what you are doing I think you will be ok...

Re: HOWTO: Install Ubuntu on Your Eee PC

Rami Taibah — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 12:11:33 -0000

What do you mean by failed? Did the above howto not work with installing on flash??

Re: HOWTO: Install Ubuntu on Your Eee PC

Rami Taibah — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 17:51:51 -0000

Well robert maybe that's your problem. Why don't you use a livecd to log into the system and tweak with your fstab to ensure that SDHC is correct?

Re: Compiz Website Hacked?

Rami Taibah — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:56:44 -0000

@ Chris: Oh I never realized it's a Wiki, thanks for the heads up!

Re: HOWTO: Convert A Friend To Linux

Rami Taibah — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 07:50:25 -0000

@Arne: Yes it is just advertising, I really don't know why I am tolerating it, maybe if he pushes is, I'll have to take action...

Re: HOWTO: Convert A Friend To Linux

Rami Taibah — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 14:12:47 -0000

Actually Justin, I think the more software you have the bad. You know security, performance...etc. More does not equal better.

Re: HOWTO: Convert A Friend To Linux

Rami Taibah — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 19:24:32 -0000

@Jay: Where did I say "More open source code does not equal better"??

All I said more applications you have bundled in your distro doesn't mean better. In fact the more applications you have the more often you will need to update, debugging ...etc. Generally it's best practice to install what you need. Why don't you just go to Synaptic and click on every piece of software there and install it?

Re: HOWTO: Convert A Friend To Linux

Rami Taibah — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 20:16:08 -0000

"All I’m saying is I made sure that I put all the video editors, audio editors, office, bla bla bla, that people would ever need into Ultumix. And the start menu has an all programs, accessories,"

He has a distro called Ultimix, and he put everything into it. Or at least thats what I understand.

Re: Windows Vista Code Revealed!!

Rami Taibah — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:41:31 -0000

Hehe ya, I want to see Dot's black list..

Re: Downloading Music the 1337 Way!

Rami Taibah — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:46:44 -0000

You should feel inferior :P One argument that has been beaten to death is that most people see computers as tools and don't care how it works, so yes when it comes to "computer kung fu" they are inferior...on the other hand, if one is interested in computers and only does Windows, may god have mercy on his soul.

Re: Photobucket Back Online in Saudi Arabia

Rami Taibah — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:57:17 -0000

It's in an earlier story I reported:

http://hehe2.net/internet/photobucket-blocked-i...

Re: Downloading Music the 1337 Way!

Rami Taibah — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 01:00:33 -0000

Anytime mate, tell me how it works out :)

Re: Pimp your Amarok: 13 Scripts You Should Know About

Rami Taibah — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 08:58:48 -0000

Thank you lefty.crupps. I hope that you find Amarok Shouter satisfying.

Honestly I don't get the idea of ReplayGain, why would I want to have different volumes for different songs? Am I missing something?

And yes soundKonverter is a must have also, especially if you have an iPod or some mp3 player and want the flexibility at the tip of your fingers ;)

Thanks for passing by... Keep On *nix-ing ;)

Re: Pimp your Amarok: 13 Scripts You Should Know About

Rami Taibah — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:43:10 -0000

@honest ape: Amarok is an applications that I could confidently and proudly say that it has no equivalent in the Windows world.

Re: Toshiba Qosmio vs. Sony Vaio TZ vs. eee PC

Rami Taibah — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 10:10:25 -0000

@ mr. rub: You conveniently left out the price tag difference ;)

Re: 10 Slick Linux Desktops, and How To Make Them

Rami Taibah — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 10:27:42 -0000

@Spud: Actually Linux does a lot out of the box, just take a look at Ubuntu, in many cases it has amazed me how it detected my hardware, I am pretty sure I am not alone. I admit that Linux still has a long way to go, but in the 3 years I have been using it, it improved bounds and leaps!

Anyways IMHO the strongest selling point of Linux is not that it's free. But rather that it's open, and flexible to a degree no other OS could claim. Got an itch? Just hack the source code...And if your not techy enough to do that, then probably your itch has been scratched by another geek programmer.

@Rich: Welcome to our jolly bunch...ya you are a geek...you should feel proud ;)

Re: Toshiba Qosmio vs. Sony Vaio TZ vs. eee PC

Rami Taibah — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 02:32:34 -0000

hehe, maybe the small TZ screen is just giving you the wrong perspective, on my 24 inch screen the eee pc is on a league on it's own. It is at least 20% smaller...but hey you paid a fortune on it, so I guess you are entitled for selective vision :P

Re: Toshiba Qosmio vs. Sony Vaio TZ vs. eee PC

Rami Taibah — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 03:18:47 -0000

Lol it's so funny how you two are going down on the eee pc? Buyers remorse? ;)

Re: Pimp your Amarok: 13 Scripts You Should Know About

Rami Taibah — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:21:02 -0000

@lefty.crupps: oh I get it now! Thanks mate, not sure if I would be using that though. I don't mind lowering the volume every now and then ;)

Re: Digg Refuses to go Down Without Sharing the Linux Love!

Rami Taibah — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:53:55 -0000

@Wayne, Been there where? You mean in their "down" message?

Ya I know they run Debian :)

Re: Digg Refuses to go Down Without Sharing the Linux Love!

Rami Taibah — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:51:17 -0000

Oh alright, thanks Wayne. Didn't know that, but still it's quite interesteting.

Oh and I didn't get to tell you, great blog! Keep up the good work :)

Re: Toshiba Qosmio vs. Sony Vaio TZ vs. eee PC

Rami Taibah — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:05:44 -0000

I don't know why you are coming up with all these comparisons. This post is a comparison in size, and only that, and the eee pc clearly has that advantage. Nobody claimed that it's more powerful or better than anything let alone the TZ. The TZ, and most other laptops win when it comes to performance hands down! But that's not the eee pc's purpose...

The eee pc serves a purpose for a lot of people, and thats ultra mobility. And that's the only advantage over other laptops (aside from the fact that it's Linux preloaded ;) ). Most eee pc owners, including me, have other laptops/desktops for their main computing needs.

Can't own? Where do you think I got these laptops for the photoshoot?? ;)

Re: Toshiba Qosmio vs. Sony Vaio TZ vs. eee PC

Rami Taibah — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 19:27:09 -0000

@JVC, Nicky, and Sandisk: Well obviously I am not going to convince you otherwise, and vise versa. The eee pc has amassed huge following, so there IS another side to your story. Anyways let's agree to disagree shall we? And thank you for dropping by :)

Re: Downloading Music the 1337 Way!

Rami Taibah — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:15:56 -0000

Ok it's in thanks Tuxie :)

Ya I know there are a lot of tools like that, this one is just a quick and dirty guide. You know. Anyways thanks for the links.

Re: Get The Most Out of Social Media on Ubuntu

Rami Taibah — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:14:37 -0000

@Honest Ape: I didn't share it with you...you got me on your frickin rss feed :P. Anyways you me 10 minutes Halo...

Re: Mixx Conquering the “Timeliness” Barrier!

Rami Taibah — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:53:22 -0000

Thank you Kerry for your quick reply.

Here is another reason you gotta love Mixx. For those of you who don't know Kerry is from the Mixx team, and she responded only hours after this post. I wonder when was the last time someone from the Digg team responded to a random blog post by a random guy?? Keep up the good work Mixx!!

Re: Etymology of A Distro

Rami Taibah — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 10:20:34 -0000

@Obelisk and Bruno: Both of these distros were under consideration in addition to Vector Linux, however I couldn't figure out the reasons behind the names. I tried to contact the given contacts on the respective site of each, but didn't get any reply *yet*

If any of you know the background of the naming of these 3 distros, please stand up :)

Re: Etymology of A Distro

Rami Taibah — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 11:39:13 -0000

@Luis Felipe: Definately I will look at it, please e-mail me (contact page) about the meaning of it.

TAsn: Ya your picky :P and I can't count ;)

Flonky Flonk: Obviously you didn't read the article or even read the title, since you came over here from Digg with the assumption that the Digg title accurately reflects what this article is. This article isn't meant to count Linux distros, but rather explain the reasons behind naming them. Hence the use of Etymology, read beyond the headline before you pass judgement.

fenix: Well your entitled to hate MS bashers. But no I am not using Windows, I washed my hands from it 3 years ago. Oh and just the fact that you think I used MS word for writing this, shows how technically gifted you are. FYI, MS Word is rarely used for web development. Oh and if you insist, I wrote this on Google docs, thank you very much.

Re: Etymology of A Distro

Rami Taibah — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 15:25:09 -0000

@disgruntleddutch I totally agree with what you said, I got this comment a lot already on different social sites. But the thing is I started writing this using distrowatch.com list, half way through the list I found that there are some BSD distros on there, I decided to throw them in the mix. Maybe the title is a wee off key, but in general both Linux and BSD are more similar than not :)

Re: Etymology of A Distro

Rami Taibah — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 18:58:04 -0000

@Monty: I didn't really skip Vectorlinux, I just didn't know what it meant, and the guys behind the distro didn't really answer my emails.

Re: Etymology of A Distro

Rami Taibah — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 03:38:02 -0000

@Claydoh @martalli @subgeniusd @Bob l @Mcbain

Thank you all for your input, I have amended the articles as per your comments. Thank you once again :)

Re: Etymology of A Distro

Rami Taibah — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 11:06:59 -0000

Ok guys, Mint Linux guys replied, I added it. Finally! It's kinda interesting check it out!

Re: Etymology of A Distro

Rami Taibah — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:59:10 -0000

@Patrick: Reading it again, I can see what your saying, but trust me it wasn't meant so. I never tried foresight ( I am really tempted to though) nor do I have any hidden agenda. It's just that I didn't really understand the idea of "rolling updates" so I asked the guys at the IRC Foresight channel, and that is exactly what they said. So ya understandably they would compare themselves to the most popular distro out there (Ubuntu), which made it sound like advertisement :)

Re: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Linux Users

Rami Taibah — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:19:45 -0000

@kewlhacker, never thought one can do that, I better look it up.

Thanks to everybody who commented and liked the article.

Thanks to the ones who fixed my spelling and/or mistakes

And as for the detractors, all I say, getting 100% approval rate is unheard of. Luckily it's a minority, I am sure there are other stuff on this blog you would appreciate :)

Re: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Linux Users

Rami Taibah — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:54:45 -0000

@tablet: The link to DSL version seems to be down (the one provided in the article), however here are some other resources:

http://librenix.com/?inode=3223
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootable_business_...

Re: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Linux Users

Rami Taibah — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:54:18 -0000

@Karl: Point taken, will add it under "Our readers habits" or something, let me just aggregate them. Will be added in a few days :)

@Oshu It's nice to see you drop by again :) As for your first point, yes maybe I should add it in the title, but that can be understood from the context of the paragraph.

As for the second point I did not mean by anyway to keep on going until you find the "just work" system. If you notice I encouraged using virtualization, a separate partition, or a whole different machine, all under the assumption that there is a base system to work on.

Re: Google Search Straight From the Command Line!

Rami Taibah — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:59:56 -0000

@numerodix, Actually nothing much so far I just used it to check how my blog ranks against some keywords. thats about it. Hey but maybe it just contributes to the "geek factor" ;)

Re: Scootch Over Tux, It’s Gentoo The Cat’s Time Now!

Rami Taibah — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 01:47:16 -0000

Actually, Josh, you should get an ape and call him bill :D. And feed him bananas!

Re: Ubuntu Hardy Heron: A First Look

Rami Taibah — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 02:07:11 -0000

@Debian Thank you

@Jay cool! Didn't know that, are you talking about Heron or previous versions? I always thought that the Kubuntu was more or less neglected by Canonical :(

@Ovidiu yes that's what I usually do ;)

@Glenn Well at least you got it working! I think your case is the exception and not the rule. It's funny how people react differently with different OS's. For example had it been an Apple, I believe most people would have figured something out to get their hardware working, or parted with the whole function or bought something compatible, this is because they paid for it and already invested in the purchase. However in Linux's case people aren't financially invested, so they just move along to the next OS, or revert to the old one....

@devolute Great! Sounds good, tell me how it goes :)

@Chris I always love hearing mom/dad stories :) care to share?

@anon thanks for trolling my blogs :)

@Marthinus You can't please everybody!

Re: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Linux Users

Rami Taibah — Fri, 02 May 2008 22:15:37 -0000

@Joe I am assuming your KDE right? Well yes that's pretty much what force quit is :)

Re: Google Search Straight From the Command Line!

Rami Taibah — Fri, 09 May 2008 08:26:18 -0000

@Keith P. Wow that's great!! I always new there is something useful out of this script...thanks for sharing.

Re: Linux: A Search Engine’s View

Rami Taibah — Fri, 09 May 2008 19:01:18 -0000

@Snir obviously, Why don't you try that and give me the results? I am sure Arabic, Japanese, and Chinese will render different results...I can't type Hebrew you know, it even appears as question marks in my browser.

Re: Crysis Running on Wine?

Rami Taibah — Sat, 10 May 2008 02:55:06 -0000

Thanks Steven for the clarifications :)

Oh and thanks for reading my blog....

Re: Plat’Home : The Palm Size Linux Server

Rami Taibah — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 12:23:33 -0000

@tallman am not really sure tbh, but note that you won't be needing a GUI

@kendon, actually this little thing is very green, according to their website:

During Operation
Unit Alone: 10.1VA (8.1W) or less
With Compact Flash: 10.1VA (8.1W) or less
With USB Memory: 11.4VA (9.1W) or less
Standby
Unit Alone: 9.5VA (7.6W) or less
With Compact Flash: 9.5VA (7.6W) or less
With USB Memory: 10.6VA (8.5W) or less

Re: 3 Reasons Why Your System Might Be Slow

Rami Taibah — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 12:07:09 -0000

@Cereal, you obviously didn't read, but just skimmed and scanned. Gimp is using 1.4 GB because that was the intent of the writer, he was trying to prove a point! He created a 10,000X10,000 pixel canvas to fill up the memory and use it as an example...Not because Gimp just decided to use it.

Re: Linux and Sex: Debunking the Myth

Rami Taibah — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 02:18:52 -0000

@Crazyguy444 and FireGuyX: Guys chill out, it's categorized under humor ffs! The first picture of the guy on the car inspired this whole blog, I was thinking of him when I wrote all this...

Re: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Linux Users

Rami Taibah — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 03:28:16 -0000

Dear Peter, thanks for your dropping by. You can return to the GUI session by hitting ctrl-alt-f7 :)

Re: Linux and Sex: Debunking the Myth

Rami Taibah — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 04:47:11 -0000

For some reason, some people are taking this post seriously.

Re: Thinnest Laptop in the World?….Pffft!!

Rami Taibah — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 08:13:00 -0000

@Hans: I would argue that the Mac Book Air fails in the department of value for money. For such an high ticket laptop, one would suspect having a DVD drive, a replaceable battery, FireWire, Ethernet, multiple USB ports, audio input, and optical audio output...

So yes I can argue that :)

And thanks for stopping by!

Re: Hacking Symantec: Easy Peasy

Rami Taibah — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:07:04 -0000

@crotchet: First of all, it seems like you are a system admin and have tasted the brunt of stupid users, I understand. But no need to lash out on me, I assure you that I am totally aware of what I am doing at any point in my system.

The 3rd party apps you ask of, are your everyday apps for me (and probably you) like Firefox, GIMP, Adobe Air, VLC..etc. The computer I recieved from the company had only 1 thing on it, and that was Mcaffee Anti-virus! So do you expect me to work with a fresh install of XP? I need to do quick photo editing, I need to browse the Internet, I even need to see some multimedia every now and then.

And trust me I am not stupid to not have anti-virus on an XP system, I simply rolled back to Mcaffee.

Besides, this post is not about me bragging about how "daring" or "adventurous" I am, it's about how stupid Symantec is. I was astonished by how I bypassed their security measures, and decided to share it with the world.

Thank you for your pleasant comment, it really felt warm inside! ;)

Re: Give Yourself A Pat on the Back! We Did It!

Rami Taibah — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 05:57:51 -0000

You know me too well Martin ;)

Re: OpenOffice.org 3.0: What to Expect?

Rami Taibah — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 09:21:07 -0000

@Jorge, here maybe this could help:

http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2008/05/08/test-d...

And scroll down to a comment made by sawjew

Re: Sourceforge on Your iPhone!

Rami Taibah — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:51:22 -0000

@Seamus, before passing accusations and flaming, why don't you actually stop and read for a minute? While the official press release didn't mention installing apps, the SourceForge blog does.

Ya I hope my iTouch gets bricked also, it's worthless anyways, I just use it as wireless device every now and then anyways.

Update: Looks like you were right Seamus! I misunderstood the "grab the latest releases from freshmeat" as "install", my source confirmed that it just an alert...which would make more sense anyways.

Re: Create Your Own Linux Distro!

Rami Taibah — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:25:05 -0000

@Chieh Cheng, LOL, didn't notice that, thanks for commenting about that, just added a few links :)

Re: HOWTO: Video Editing Magic with ffmpeg

Rami Taibah — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:34:25 -0000

Thank you mate! Yes I had a rough week, but guess what? Life goes on :)

Now get on ffmpeg and start making some flv's for youtube (or Vimeo, I like that more believe it or not)

Re: May God Bless Your Soul…

Rami Taibah — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:36:19 -0000

Thank you all, Farhan, init7, Honest_Ape, and Chris.

As for Amrush and ooBia they are my two dear brothers, so do I really need to thank them :P?

Re: Even More Incriminating Evidence in The Foxconn Debacle!

Rami Taibah — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:58:14 -0000

@Joe: Actually I didn't really read the slashdot comments on this story, in fact I rarely read any comments.

This one is "ripped off" from digg ;)

No but really, whats the shame in that? Should I be the all seeing eye and know everything on the Internet? Isn't the Internet was based on sharing information and data? What's so wrong with seeing a comment on some website and build a case around it?

Re: Apple iPhone 3G: A Beautiful Jail

Rami Taibah — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 20:31:13 -0000

@Gerald: Fixed! Thanks :)

Re: Even More Incriminating Evidence in The Foxconn Debacle!

Rami Taibah — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 12:02:17 -0000

@sd: There is this misconception that this is about Foxconn not supporting Linux. Unfortunately this is not the case! Had it been merely some hardware vendor not supporting Linux you would have heard a million and one linux user complaining about the 100's of vendors who don't support us!

It more about false advertising. Foxconn advertised support for ACPI, had that been true the board should have worked.

And even that is not the problem, the problem is that Foxconn (allegedly) locked out Linux.

Now if you don't grasp what this means, imagine the World Wide Web consortium fiddled around with the http protocol so it would cause Firefox out of all other browsers to crash...this is how sinister is.

Re: Apple iPhone 3G: A Beautiful Jail

Rami Taibah — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 12:21:06 -0000

Scott thank you for your comment.

While an average person isn't concerned about this, they usually vent their frustration to their Linux savvy friends. I have got numerous calls since the inception of the iPod/iPhone on why can't I play this file or can't do this or that. They probably think they are doing something wrong, where in reality someone in Cupertino decided not to play this OGG or FLAC file. This shouldn't be the case, it's my damn hardware that I payed with my hard earned cash and I am entitled to play whatever I deem appropriate, especially if its an open format like OGG.

I for one had an old iPod and it worked beautifully on Linux and Amarok. However when it died, I decided to buy an iPod Touch without giving it much thought or research. Lo and behold, the touch has been locked down, and doesn't work seamlessly like it's previous model. How frustrating is that? Again it's my hardware and I should be able to manage it with whatever OS I deem fit!

About the GPS thingy, yes other phones also can be used to track you down, I never owned a GPS phone, and I don't know if one can disable it or not. But still it's a privacy risk that people should be aware of nonetheless.

Re: Even More Incriminating Evidence in The Foxconn Debacle!

Rami Taibah — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:47:23 -0000

@Kencoe, thank you for taking the time to comment on this and helping to fill the blanks on this issue :)

Your comment was very concise and to the point, and gave me the energy to keep on blogging and advocating Linux and Open Source. Just the fact that somebody out there benefited from the post is reassuring to me that I am on the right track!

Once again thank you :)

Re: Order Pizza From A Linux Command Line

Rami Taibah — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:40:55 -0000

Well honest_ape, at least I am better than you in something :P

Re: Order Pizza From A Linux Command Line

Rami Taibah — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:53:58 -0000

That's enough for me ;)

Re: Create Your Own Linux Distro!

Rami Taibah — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:49:14 -0000

@Fernando, as I said in the beginning of this post, this isn't the "real" thing. If you want the real thing then you should probably do Linux From Scratch. That said, the options I presented in this post is all you get. Sorry :) But of course you can probably create a distro using this and then remaster it ;)

Re: 5 Linux Commercials I Like

Rami Taibah — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 18:28:06 -0000

Thanks Christian. The first one is great, hence it's the first ;)

I also love the 3rd one, it builds logically very well...

Re: Toshiba Qosmio vs. Sony Vaio TZ vs. eee PC

Rami Taibah — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 18:37:26 -0000

Yup M II K E! Am def gonna buy a 900 will probably write about it! Hell i'll do a laptop fashion show like I did with all these systems :)

Re: Oh Noes! Ubuntu Got Pwned by an XP Virus!

Rami Taibah — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 10:23:44 -0000

Debbie0, you can safely ignore it :)

Re: Apple iPhone 3G: A Beautiful Jail

Rami Taibah — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 10:48:29 -0000

@Keon and Faz, well mate not everybody could really break those shackles, not everybody has the technical ability. While Dell and other companies also follow such practices, none of them actually created products like Apple that make consumers salivate. I mean the iPhone seems to be the holy grail of phones. I always get responses like "you don't have an iPhone?" or "how can you not like the iPhone or Apple". They brainwashed people with their crap.

Re: 9 Linux Myths Debunked

Rami Taibah — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:17:55 -0000

@ "me" 95% of the cases what you want will be in the package manager, you can add repos as you wish. And in the case that it still not there, there will probably be a package (deb or rpm) that can be installed by double clicking. Finally if all fails you will need to install from source code.

Oh and btw I just love how you just compared a person with an OS ;)

@42gems, yes there is pain, there is always pain no matter what the platform is, refer to the link I provided of my printer experience on XP. Linux isn't utopia, it's almost there :P

Re: 9 Linux Myths Debunked

Rami Taibah — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:37:08 -0000

@Rob There has been a lot of discussion back and forth, I hope I could adequately address all your points.
1-It's not really a point for or against Linux, all I was saying that currently Linux users are more savvy than Windows. If the situation was reversed then I believe that I can't claim such a claim. As it is, because Linux users are more savvy it's less prone...thats all.

2-True, and it could be exploited, but it would be patched by someone else as soon as the word gets out. Don't think one could claim that in closed source.

3-Yes true, I have done that before, but still Linux has the head start of 95% of software already in repos. Windows has 0%, package management is non-existent.

4-Yes that's what I am saying, and it doesn't conflict with what you are saying. All I said that Linux would probably do a better job in auto-detection. Harish already tried to explain that to you :)

5-The difference is, and I have been on both sides of the camp, is that on the Open Source camp you feel that people are willing to help, you can feel the enthusiasm. Also I always felt that Windows forums, help is more like stabs in the dark, since it's closed and error reporting is crap. I don't know maybe I am biased, but thats my experience.

6-Doesn't negate the fact that the installation process was a pain in the ass. Why should a user tolerate his/her hardware not working because there is a virus but not tolerate it because the need to download some package or tweak a bit here or there?

Anyways, I do not claim to be an authority, I am merely arguing from my own personal experience. And whether I am correct or wrong, I hope I will learn something new.

@Wraiyth Fortunately I do not use that stuff, and quite honestly I don't know what they are, so I really can't argue.

@Harman: Yes I think that documentation in Linux sometimes need to be toned down a bit, in a lot of cases the documentation is way too comprehensive, a simple thing you are trying to figure out gets lost in all the detail.

@rHy: once again I am a console gamer, so I wouldn't know :D

@klas: 1-Huh what are you talking about? I am totally content with my fonts. Do you mean fonts in Gimp and/or OpenOffice, or just regular GUI fonts? Because if it's the latter I am totally content!

2-If you break the kernel, just roll back to your older one. No biggie. Do whatever you did again. And besides kernel updates are done by your package manager so one shouldn't have a problem. If you do it manually, then you are probably good enough and know what your doing.

3-Never claimed that Linux is at par to Windows when it comes to gaming. All I said that Linux gaming is possible, contrary to popular belief

4-95% of the apps an average joe wants would be in the repos

@Anders Lund

1-Won't happen, distros usually make sure that it doesn't.
2-I didn't say it's hard, its just irritating. Anybody can browse and click, the process just takes longer, than a package manager.
3-In general out of the box detection, Linux is better. Windows has the advantage that the vendors providing the drivers. I know this doesn't concern the average user, but tell me which would fare better on two exact systems with no Internet connection? Anyways Rob has offered a valid question regarding this point. Why?
4-Thanks Anders for your comments I really appreciate it, but I am anything but an experienced Linux user. I switched to Linux in 2006 and never looked back. I can't code one line of code. However I am enthusiastic about Linux, and that has propelled me a lot to learn. I tried to make this article as simple as possible, if you notice I even explained some stuff like package manager and what not because I had non-linux users in mind.

@Rob (again) I might have made some sweeping generalizations, but I made them to prove a point. For example in the hardware problem, I did not mean that the hardware in Windows is crap because my HP didn't work on XP, but rather every OS has it's problems, but with one it's tolerated and the other isn't

@YSoSerious, Why is it so hard to believe? Actually that story has been part of my About page for so long, so obviously I didn't make it up for this article. All I had was some SUSE CD's and a Linux Format Magazine that took me through the steps, the trickiest part was of course partitions, but I got through. I don't see why its hard to believe. LOL ya I might be a tad too optimistic ;)

@Anders Lund (Again) Actually if you download a package you probably can just double click on it ;). Anyways why is the CLI not tolerated while the Registry is I wonder?

@Jeff, I am not all the experienced to be honest, I have been on Linux for 2 years or 3 max! However I gave it more than a month or two just like any other OS. Anybody migrating from Windows to Mac would get turned off. However they are expected to stick because they probably forked $1000. With Linux no one is sticking around because there is no financial loss, then immediately judged.

Re: Tell Me Your Distro, I’ll Tell You Who You Are

Rami Taibah — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 03:19:06 -0000

Andrew, OldLinuxGeek, and M4rc0, I would just like to bring to your attention that this is filed under humor ;). Take it with a light heart guys. As I said in my commentary, I am on Ubuntu currently :)

Re: 9 Linux Myths Debunked

Rami Taibah — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:21:32 -0000

@SOAD, It would of made your comment much more effective if you constructively debated my article instead of flaming. Lots of people over on this thread called me out on stuff in a a civilized fashion, which apparently you lack.

Back to India? Funny how you meant that to be degrading, yet India is considered one of the best if not the best when it come to IT. Haven't you heard?

Re: 9 Linux Myths Debunked

Rami Taibah — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 04:47:16 -0000

@koraycaglar, thanks for your comments. I have heard a lot of great things Pardus, I will eventually try it out lol.

About SOAD: Ignore him he is just a troll...

Re: OpenMoko Freerunner Unboxing

Rami Taibah — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 22:28:39 -0000

@Chris: Honestly I am a bit disappointed with the phone out-of-the-box. But I don't want to pass a final judgement before I tweak and hack around with it, as I said I will write a full review.

@Honest Ape: You know it ;)

Re: Run Windows Apps 100% Seamlessly on Ubuntu!

Rami Taibah — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:31:20 -0000

@snapper thanks, thats good to know :)

@Antony Jones: I honestly didn't know that virtualbox had such a feature, reading comments on Digg made me realize that. It does sound a much better solution, haven't tried it yet.

Re: Run Windows Apps 100% Seamlessly on Ubuntu!

Rami Taibah — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:11:35 -0000

@shiro and Userdenied: Do you have examples of the apps and/or games you wish to run on VM?

Re: Run Windows Apps 100% Seamlessly on Ubuntu!

Rami Taibah — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:13:50 -0000

@lazybit, I will def check it out! It's Rami not Rambi ;)

@JC: Didn't quite get you, what do you mean?

Re: Run Windows Apps 100% Seamlessly on Ubuntu!

Rami Taibah — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 09:42:04 -0000

@Soor could you email me using this :

http://hehe2.net/contact/

Re: Intrepid Ibex Release Schedule

Rami Taibah — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 16:36:27 -0000

@Stork: Yes I understand your frustration, but believe it or not uTorrent works wonderfully under wine. And if you wanna go hardcore, why don't you use rtorrent? A terminal torrent client! It's not as as hard as it sounds :)

Re: Why Don’t You Throw Your Cube into an Aquarium?

Rami Taibah — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 07:59:27 -0000

Indeed guys, I have seen a lot of Desktop cubes in my day, but this one is just WOW!

Re: Why Don’t You Throw Your Cube into an Aquarium?

Rami Taibah — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 08:49:06 -0000

@Miladinoski: It' s working now, thanks for the heads up1

Re: HOWTO: Linksys WMP54G PCI Wireless Adapter on Ubuntu (Gutsy)

Rami Taibah — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:47:15 -0000

@Oliver This is almost a year old, am not sure if I could I could vouch for this method now. But I think if you google the error (which does seem to be out of the scope of this howto) then you would probably find your solution:

http://www.google.com/search?q=no+rule+to+make+...

Re: xVideoServiceThief: One Video Download Manager to Rule Them All!

Rami Taibah — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 07:45:35 -0000

@Numerodix, I have been testing it out for a bit, and blip.tv, youtube, google video all worked fine. However it never worked with Metacafe, I keep getting those buggy "Send error report" messages.

I will try to a full test on all these websites tonight, I will probably give a full report on a separate blog.

Re: Run Windows Apps 100% Seamlessly on Ubuntu!

Rami Taibah — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 19:21:42 -0000

@Keevman no you don't. Here is a handy howto, for Ubuntu, your mileage may vary ;)

http://www.howtoforge.com/ubuntu_feisty_fawn_vm...

Re: Chromium: Google’s Browser on Linux and Mac!

Rami Taibah — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 05:37:27 -0000

@rovr138, that's a great tip! I'll test it out and include it into the article :)

@Tyler, this is just the beginning, I expect more. Much more

@Oli, Isn't that implied with the mention of Codeweaver ;). The point is that it works! Probably not for everyday use, but for testing and whatnot :)

Re: 100 Posts Later….Royal HeHe2-ness Finds A New Temple

Rami Taibah — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 17:41:00 -0000

@Alejandro, it's been great, I got dugg once, but it was on a weekend so I didn't get the surge that took my site down when I was on bluehost....

I am expecting getting dugg on my latest DRM article though :D

Re: Run Windows Apps 100% Seamlessly on Ubuntu!

Rami Taibah — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 19:02:12 -0000

@Keevman, I am assuming that VMware is working fine, you are just having trouble with the launcher you created as per this post right?

Could you post the exact command?

Re: Run Windows Apps 100% Seamlessly on Ubuntu!

Rami Taibah — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 19:24:30 -0000

That seems right, but are you sure you got seamlessrdpshell.exe in c:\seamless ?

What do you get when you execute that command in the terminal??

Re: Why DRM Should Be Kicked to The Curb

Rami Taibah — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 09:20:22 -0000

Wow great commen App!! I love where you are coming from. This comment is already brewing a new blogpost in my head! Keep it up :)

Re: 100 Posts Later….Royal HeHe2-ness Finds A New Temple

Rami Taibah — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:21:03 -0000

Gee thanks :)

Re: 100 Posts Later….Royal HeHe2-ness Finds A New Temple

Rami Taibah — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:39:41 -0000

I think I should cancel my account at Bluehost now :)

Re: Why Don’t You Throw Your Cube into an Aquarium?

Rami Taibah — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:28:47 -0000

Aletheia thanks for helping out :) Much appreciated!

Re: Why Don’t You Throw Your Cube into an Aquarium?

Rami Taibah — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 02:53:32 -0000

sudo apt-get install compiz-bcop

Re: How Linux Helped 5 Poverty-Stricken Governments

Rami Taibah — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 08:17:27 -0000

Thanks Pavs, it means so much coming from you :)

Re: How Linux Helped 5 Poverty-Stricken Governments

Rami Taibah — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 08:19:56 -0000

Thanks Binny, interesting blogpost. The fact that you are from Kerala, gives it even more credibility.

Re: Why Don’t You Throw Your Cube into an Aquarium?

Rami Taibah — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:16:14 -0000

Sudo apt-get install libtool :D

Re: Why Don’t You Throw Your Cube into an Aquarium?

Rami Taibah — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:16:53 -0000

actually it's "sudo apt-get install libtool" lower-case "s" in sudo :)

Re: How Linux Helped 5 Poverty-Stricken Governments

Rami Taibah — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:35:11 -0000

Ragflan, percentages can be tricky, while there is no official way to compute the number of Linux users around the world, I can assure you it’s more than 1%. Just recently the world has hit the 1 billion PC’s mark, meaning that 1% would be 10 million users only, anybody would tell you thats not a very accurate number.

In any case a small number like 15,000 or even 100,000 isn’t really gonna tip the percentage scale. You need 10 million users to gain one percentage point! :)

Re: How Linux Helped 5 Poverty-Stricken Governments

Rami Taibah — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 03:22:00 -0000

Ya I got that comment yesterday. "when I watch these news reports about linux on your blog you realize how these news readers don't understand what they're talking about. and you realize its not just linux they don't understand, everything they report on is probably equally poorly reported :D" was one comment :P

Re: Howto: Upgrade to Adobe Air Beta on Ubuntu

Rami Taibah — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 10:24:24 -0000

Thanks, hope you find it useful :)

Re: Howto: Upgrade to Adobe Air Beta on Ubuntu

Rami Taibah — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 10:25:53 -0000

Yup you got that right. Lol.

Glad that it solved your problem...it was a pain I know.

Re: Howto: Upgrade to Adobe Air Beta on Ubuntu

Rami Taibah — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 13:18:21 -0000

You are indeed right Vadim! Sorry about that faux pas :)

Re: Lessons Linux Should Learn From Windows and Mac

Rami Taibah — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 19:37:42 -0000

Personally I am getting closer and closer to that. I have ditched Windows for 3 years now, and went exclusively Linux (though I had to start using XP at work last year). But when I am on a Vista computer I get kind of confused, I raise my hand in despair and quit LOL.

I would imagine 5 years down the line with Windows 7...8...9, things would have changed drastically that I would feel really stupid in front of Windows machine.

Re: Lessons Linux Should Learn From Windows and Mac

Rami Taibah — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 19:40:10 -0000

Well, Ian seems to be in agreement with you JW on your first point. He admits that Windows, when it comes to hardware, is not as user-friendly in out-of-the-box installations. They *just work* when you use the OEM cd shipped with your branded PC.

Re: Lessons Linux Should Learn From Windows and Mac

Rami Taibah — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 20:04:14 -0000

Haha I have a marketing career and I started this freakin blog ;)

Re: Lessons Linux Should Learn From Windows and Mac

Rami Taibah — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 20:08:18 -0000

I don't really think that Paniq bashed you Chris.

Re: Lessons Linux Should Learn From Windows and Mac

Rami Taibah — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 09:33:17 -0000

Why thank you Jeremy :)!

Re: 7 Google Tools For A Better Linux Experience

Rami Taibah — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 03:11:45 -0000

Any of the apps over here can be used on any distro, it just happens that I am currently using Ubuntu.

In any case nothing that is said here would be hard for another distro user to figure out on their own. It's just some apt-getting. Am sure yum-ming or emerg-ing would yield similar results ;)

Re: Ubuntu Dominating Google! Or is it?

Rami Taibah — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 07:06:35 -0000

Happy to see you coming back Ashutosh! Glad that you like it. I have bigger plans for this blog, so hold your breath ;)

Na I don't think there is conspiracy or anything, I didn't really think about it. Maybe they just didn't see the relation between my title and the graph...whatever I don't care it's just another notch on my Digg account belt :)

Re: 7 Google Tools For A Better Linux Experience

Rami Taibah — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 10:34:34 -0000

I never figured out Gnome Do! It's just not responding as how it's supposed to with me! LOL maybe I am just too stupid....

Re: Piracy Hurts Open Source Also!

Rami Taibah — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 03:22:47 -0000

Kwipper, you are completely right, games ARE Linux's bane, no matter how you spin it! If you are a PC gamer, then stick with Windows or at least dual boot. However if you are the kind of gamer that plays only a game or two (WoW only for example) then you might pull it off through wine.

Or switch to consoles :P

Re: Piracy Hurts Open Source Also!

Rami Taibah — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 03:30:05 -0000

Exactly, and this is what this blog is trying to do. Get the word out :D Not sure if it's delivering though!

Re: Interview With The SourceForge Community Manager

Rami Taibah — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:56:35 -0000

Thanks tattoo! Glad you like it. However this entry seems to be a bit unpopular compared to others on this blog for some reason :)

Re: OpenMoko Freerunner Unboxing

Rami Taibah — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:58:41 -0000

Hell ya I remember! I even remember your beer swigging app idea! Lol.

Ya we should have a "post your video" thread instead of "post your photo"....times are changing...

Re: 30 Cool Linux Login Screens

Rami Taibah — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 13:34:29 -0000

There, Craig, fixed :)

Re: 30 Cool Linux Login Screens

Rami Taibah — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 01:34:30 -0000

Cesar, which one do you want? Give me an example so we can work on :)

Re: Howto: Fresh Ubuntu Install Without Losing Your Current Settings

Rami Taibah — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:20:15 -0000

Hmm that's weird, there IS a double dash in both commands. However it's just appearing as one long dash. Any ideas?

Oh and thanks for you feedback :)

Re: Howto: Fresh Ubuntu Install Without Losing Your Current Settings

Rami Taibah — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:08:29 -0000

Well in that case you will probably need to reinstall them again. Just note them down and install it again. But hey this method does 90% of the leg work....

Re: Howto: Fresh Ubuntu Install Without Losing Your Current Settings

Rami Taibah — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:47:50 -0000

Thanks windcallers for your suggestions. I really value such suggestions from new comers as yourself. After a couple of years on Linux, one tends to forget how some simple stuff seemed so confusing :)

Will take your suggestion into consideration :)

Re: Howto: Fresh Ubuntu Install Without Losing Your Current Settings

Rami Taibah — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:48:47 -0000

You are totally right, however the post idea occurred to me only 1 week ago :S

Hopefully this will still be relevant with 9.04 ;)

Re: Howto: Fresh Ubuntu Install Without Losing Your Current Settings

Rami Taibah — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:50:42 -0000

I guess that depends on where the DB is located right? I don't know about mythtv to be honest never really used it, but me thinks it should also be in /home.

Unless you mean the multimedia itself.

Re: Howto: Fresh Ubuntu Install Without Losing Your Current Settings

Rami Taibah — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:51:57 -0000

Why would you remove .mozilla?

Re: Howto: Fresh Ubuntu Install Without Losing Your Current Settings

Rami Taibah — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:55:31 -0000

It may be superficial, but again I don't really have such configurations. My mail is in the cloud, and don't really use anti-virus, or spamassasain. Personally my apps and config is all I need. I am sure I am not alone, and its still relevant to a lot of people out there. Then again, users who have such configs aren't exactly noobs to forget to back up these files.

Re: Howto: Fresh Ubuntu Install Without Losing Your Current Settings

Rami Taibah — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:57:59 -0000

yes I chown'ed, totally forgot about that!

And yes I do also have a separate /home, but I was aiming for the least common denominator ;)

Re: Howto: Fresh Ubuntu Install Without Losing Your Current Settings

Rami Taibah — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:58:52 -0000

As Michael said, I tweak a lot, and I never felt comfortable with a straight upgrade....

Re: Run Windows Apps 100% Seamlessly on Ubuntu!

Rami Taibah — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 08:29:43 -0000

Am not really sure Aanand, I doubt it, but it's worth a try. Generally if it doesn't work under general VM then this method won't change a thing...

Re: Microsoft Using Apple’s Macbook Pro In Promotional Material?

Rami Taibah — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 21:33:29 -0000

True there are other silver PC's out there, but take a look at the keyboard, they have the same shape of a Macbook Pro.

And besides thats not really the point, its a screwup, I mean do you want to tell me that the marketing department was like "alright guys lets do a photoshoot and use a laptop similar to the mac book pro and don't forget the Xbox 360 Playstation look-alike joysticks!!"

Re: Microsoft Using Apple’s Macbook Pro In Promotional Material?

Rami Taibah — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 21:57:41 -0000

The booklet is right here between my hands...Its REAL, trust me :)

Re: Microsoft Using Apple’s Macbook Pro In Promotional Material?

Rami Taibah — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:22:11 -0000

Thats not the point. The point is that marketing is about attention to detail, which is not the case here.

Re: Microsoft Using Apple’s Macbook Pro In Promotional Material?

Rami Taibah — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 03:50:46 -0000

Lol Joseph, thats cool. But how the hell did you know its your brother? I mean I am sure there is more than one Joshua out there?

Re: Microsoft Using Apple’s Macbook Pro In Promotional Material?

Rami Taibah — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 08:49:01 -0000

I really wish that you would read Edit 2 :)

Re: Microsoft Using Apple’s Macbook Pro In Promotional Material?

Rami Taibah — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:11:51 -0000

Ya I realized that moments after I posted my comments...its all good :)

Re: 30 Cool Linux Login Screens

Rami Taibah — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 01:53:21 -0000

Hey autumn, glad you like it. And you CAN get Linux its just a click away ;)

Re: 30 Cool Linux Login Screens

Rami Taibah — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:41:50 -0000

Which got me thinking is there a way to convert from GNOME to KDE and vice versa? Better search it, would make a good blog. Thanks Smoodin :)

Re: HOWTO: Linksys WMP54G PCI Wireless Adapter on Ubuntu (Gutsy)

Rami Taibah — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:33:47 -0000

Oh so its working now on Intrepid out of the box? Thats great!

Re: 30 Cool Linux Login Screens

Rami Taibah — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:52:16 -0000

Jony, which theme do you want to use? Gnome or KDE?

Re: 100 Posts Later….Royal HeHe2-ness Finds A New Temple

Rami Taibah — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:53:02 -0000

Sorry to hear that Janet. If you need any help, please let me know :)

Re: Run Windows Apps 100% Seamlessly on Ubuntu!

Rami Taibah — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 18:47:54 -0000

Hmm, I am not sure if I understand you. Do you mean you have two borders? You got a screen shot?

Re: Run Windows Apps 100% Seamlessly on Ubuntu!

Rami Taibah — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 18:49:56 -0000

Well the sad truth is the the newer iPods (touch) don't work well with Linux. Apple have locked it down very well. There are some tools, but they never seem to work for me....

You got an iPod touch right? I personally ditched my iPod Touch.

Re: Run Windows Apps 100% Seamlessly on Ubuntu!

Rami Taibah — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 20:22:31 -0000

Thats weird man, I never encountered this. Let me google it a bit and try to find the solution.

Did you try it with another distro?

Re: 30 Cool Linux Login Screens

Rami Taibah — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 04:27:45 -0000

Fixed! Thanks for the heads up :)

Re: Ubuntu: Try KDE 4.2 Now!

Rami Taibah — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 13:11:53 -0000

You mean something like this? http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php/gtk-kd...

Re: Hotlinking Fun

Rami Taibah — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 11:54:34 -0000

haha Matt,

I am always weary of hotlinking, I basically do it only with Wikipedia pictures and Flickr. But these guys just got pwned! And the best part is that they still didn't notice

Re: Our TIger Cub

Rami Taibah — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 06:33:51 -0000

Rawwwwr!

Re: Our TIger Cub

Rami Taibah — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 06:34:19 -0000

awww mandigo theme, my first ever theme. Great choice Carrie!

Re: How To: Add Facebook Chat To Pidgin

Rami Taibah — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 04:00:47 -0000

Thanks Matt! Worked on Ubuntu Linux without a hitch.

I am having problems with getting my Google Apps (hehe2.net) account to work. It used to work, but with their latest update it just stopped...any ideas?

Re: Xmas Easter Egg On VLC Media Player?

Rami Taibah — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 21:48:35 -0000

ooooh the favicon...nice

Re: The Hypocritical Digg Revolt

Rami Taibah — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 03:31:29 -0000

@Bdog2g2 True, I am sure there are a million petitions online with much nobler causes that failed...and a bitching and whining petition gets 16K Diggs...thats just not right.

@Gabriella personally I don't think its wrong to digg a story if I haven't read it. Like I said in the blog, there are a lot of stories that don't particularly interest me but the title and description was enough for me to learn something new but not pursue it further...

Alternatively, there are some subjects that I am so knowledgeable about that I know the what the story is talking about before I even click on it...

Its a thorny issue and there are a lot of different reasons to digg something without actually reading the story....

Re: 2008/02/05/digg-tech-section-analysis/

Rami Taibah — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 01:27:37 -0000

Why would people laugh at slashdot? I think that's just stupid, Alexa's rating are by no means accurate, and I think in ./ case it's even more distorted. Since Alexa's business model is based on installing their toolbar, and I am sure that most ./ geek users consider such bar as spyware...

Re: Install OpenOffice 3.0 in Ubuntu 8.04 and 8.10 | Tombuntu

Rami Taibah — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 20:29:04 -0000

I am getting this error...

/opt/openoffice.org3/program/soffice.bin: symbol lookup error: /opt/openoffice.org3/program/../basis-link/program/configmgr2.uno.so: undefined symbol: _ZN5tools20getProcessWorkingDirEPN3rtl8OUStringE

Can you help?

Re: Thoughts on Digg’s Latest Features: Thumbs Up

Rami Taibah — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 20:27:25 -0000

Another thing about thumbnail pictures. I usually do all my blogging on google docs and then export it. When submitting to Digg, it does not pick up the pictures in the article. I am no web programming expert, but I do understand that my blog is basically hot linking pictures from google docs, but isn't there be some kind of a work around?

Re: Every Social Network is Different: Here’s What You Need to Know

Rami Taibah — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 04:18:00 -0000

@ Wingnut: Yes very true, I haven't either. However there are some cases that you want to catch something live. For example just a couple of hours ago, I wanted to catch Obama's SC victory speech, I tuned in too CNN...But then again, there is probably a live streaming service streaming the speech I didn't know about :)

Re: HOWTO: sound after hibernate in Linux (Gusty/Lenny)

Rami Taibah — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 15:03:47 -0000

This worked great thanks!

But one minor problem. Am running xfce on xubuntu. When ever it resumes the interface gets a big ugly, as if am running the apps using root or something... Can provide you a before and after screenshots if I wasn't clear enough...